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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Adam's parents realize?
(a) The water has disappeared.
(b) The well is dry again.
(c) The cellar is dry.
(d) The water has stopped gushing.

2. What does Stew Meat do after he gets out his card?
(a) Makes a wish.
(b) Gives it to Rowena.
(c) Gives it to Polly.
(d) Gives it to Adam.

3. What does Pa do with some barrels and wood from the hen house?
(a) Makes a raft.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Fills them with their family possessions.
(d) Fills them with dynamite to try to blast a drain hole in the earth.

4. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?
(a) He is brilliant.
(b) He is lying.
(c) He's been in the heat too long.
(d) He does not know what he is talking about.

5. About what does Mrs. Jervice remind Rowena?
(a) A party.
(b) Taking her little brother to the park.
(c) Going with her dad to the park.
(d) Going to the zoo the next day.

6. What do Adam and his father do with the excess water?
(a) Put it in tanks.
(b) Channel it away from the fields.
(c) They do not know what to do.
(d) Let it lie in the pond.

7. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They are dry and cracked.
(b) They are all watered.
(c) They turn green almost instantaneously.
(d) They burn.

8. What does Sam suggest they do for Henry?
(a) Feed him some fertilizer.
(b) Make him more comfortable.
(c) Notify his parents of his situation.
(d) Leave him alone to sulk.

9. How does Polly seem to have been changed by her experience?
(a) She will not go to church socials.
(b) She is only unkind to someone who deserves it.
(c) She does not seem to have changed.
(d) She speaks politely to others.

10. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?
(a) That he can actually dowse for water.
(b) That he can build a better dam than Adam.
(c) That he really knows anything about engineering.
(d) That he will arrive this time since he did not last time.

11. What does Adam's mother say when he tries to tell his parents about his wish?
(a) She tells Adam that he can not go to college now since they have probably lost the farm.
(b) She tells Adam it is not his fault.
(c) She tells Adam to be quiet.
(d) She tells Adam the flood is all his fault.

12. Who is at Adam's house when he arrives with the wagon?
(a) Uncle Poot.
(b) His older sister who is at college.
(c) His older brother who is on leave from the Navy.
(d) No one.

13. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(b) To fish for his family's meals.
(c) To haul water.
(d) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.

14. What does Rowena wonder about Polly?
(a) If Polly has been able to reverse the effect of using the card.
(b) If Polly is also in trouble from using her card.
(c) If Polly would try to help her.
(d) If Polly is mad at her.

15. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?
(a) Pa believes it is divine judgement.
(b) Pa is not angry.
(c) Pa is irate.
(d) Pa says Adam could not have done this.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adam's father tell Adam the family will do?

2. What do Adam, Polly and Rowena want when the come into Stew Meat's store?

3. What is happening to the valley?

4. What happens if someone really irritates Polly?

5. Who comes out to the farm?

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